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Return Of The Random Commander Challenge: Knightfall!

Any time Abe gets primed to uncover a new random Commander project, the people take notice! Today’s special brew is all about swords, shields, and victory! Let’s give three cheers for Ser Abe Sargent and his army of skull-bashing tribal Knights!

Todd VS. The Boss: Evolutionary Elves VS. Jund

Magic Origins has quietly shaken up the settled Modern metagame, so Todd Anderson and Tom “The Boss” Ross explore some of the format’s new vistas to prepare for Modern’s return to the Open Series this weekend at #SCGCIN!

Battle For Zendikar Brings Hope

What is a dedicated control mage to do with the new Battle for Zendikar spoilers? Rejoice, that’s what, as control aficionados are about to enter a realm of great mana for their control decks!

Video: Mono-White Devotion In Standard

Hot off of a Top Four finish at the Magic World Championships, Sam Black takes you for a ride along with his Mono-White Devotion deck from that tournament as he puts it through its paces.

Daily Digest: The Zendikari Will Win

While we may have a month still to wait before Battle for Zendikar arrives on shelves, it’s not too soon to “gather your Allies” and battle in Modern.

Season Three Invitational *Top 8*

With his first Invitational Top Eight now in the bag, Gerard Fabiano looks back at the decks he played and the Legacy format as a whole – and then looks forward to a new Standard thanks to Battle for Zendikar!

Loners At Worlds

This year’s World Championships saw a lot of consensus on what the best decks to play in Standard were – but the outliers were very interesting as far as what they say about the continuing dynamic nature of the Standard format.

The Last Days Of Standard

Bennie Smith recounts his recent Standard exploits by looking at the many flavors of Hangarback Walker decks he’s tried out recently, and he looks forward to Battle for Zendikar Standard by starting to draft new decks off of the few spoiled cards seen so far!

Standard (And A Little Modern) After Worlds

With the World Championships in the books, Adrian Sullivan pores over the data in order to figure out where the Standard metagame is going next… and examines recent Modern trends in order to figure out what to play at #SCGCIN this weekend!

My Season Three Invitational

Tom “The Boss” Ross has had a long string of great finishes at the Invitational, and he came prepared to Infect his opponents this past weekend at the Season Three Invitational in Somerset. But not everything went as planned…

Gathering Courage

With the Season Three Invitational in the books, Todd looks back at the decisions that brought him there – and at the broader state of Magic as a whole, both real-life and digital, to see where improvements are necessary if Magic is to thrive.

Manabases In Battle For Zendikar Standard

We may not know very much yet about Battle For Zendikar, but we do already know that the mana we can access in this new Standard format will look very different than it does today. Ross Merriam breaks it down to get a sense of what lies ahead for us.

Sultai Delve In Standard

We have seen Gurmag Angler break out in both Modern and Legacy at this point, but does it have a home in Standard? Jim Davis believes so, and he has a potent Sultai deck to prove it!

Daily Digest: The Champ Is Here

Everything old is new again if you just wait long enough in this Standard metagame. The red-blue artifact deck returns, taking down Magic Online’s Standard Championships with a base-red deck full of burn and Ensoul Artifacts rather than the Pro Tour’s blue-based shell.

Three Rhinos And A Dream

The World Championships is Magic’s largest stage and its hardest tournament. Even getting into the event is a serious accomplishment, but Brad Nelson didn’t want to rest on his laurels when there were twenty-three other mages standing between him and the title.